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Dead Birds

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Robert Gardner View All

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Robert Gardner (Director), Robert Gardner (Writer) View All

Release: Oct. 1st, 1963

Runtime: 1 hour, 24 minutes

The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two...

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